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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Dragonblood (repost)

The terrible Captain Meriadec believes in the existence of a mysterious map of hidden worlds. He therefore penetrates with his men the legendary forest of scissy to try to entice dame Eloam, a guide of the elven people... But leaving this place is not so easy and there will be many dangers. Why did Meriadec decide to take such risks? What is he looking for? Dragonblood. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Guy Michel.

The captain Hannibal and his gang of pirates are not choirboys. That will not stop them from launching an expedition in the footsteps of a simple local legend: that of Mell-Talec, korrigan mythical pirate, who gained his fame thanks to the magic of a unique card, that of the Sidh worlds determined to seize Hannibal sailed to the island of Chausey, the first stage of his odyssey.


Monday, October 26, 2020

Mages

In the lands of Arran, following the events of "Lah'saa's Betrayal" and the defeat of her Ghoul Armies, the Mages must now obey a new law: they must be indentured into the service of a Human Lord. Those that refuse, are tracked down by the Order of Shadows, imprisoned or, depending on their additional, crimes, executed. by KYKO Kyko Duarte (Drawings), Jean-Luc Istin  (Contributor), J. Nanjan (Inker).
Tyrom cannot remember his past, but despite his misgivings and desire for solitude, he is drawn into the life of Shannon, a mischievous child of the free city of Castlelek. This independent city is coveted by King Gerald however, and when Tyrom sees one of the King's mercenaries threatening Shannon he intercedes... And at that moment, great power, magical power is unleashed! Yet he does not understand how... Is he Mage? Is that why he cannot remember his past?


Saturday, August 1, 2020

Non Album Collections 246

Solo 01 - The Survivors of Chaos (2020)

After a nuclear war, mutant animals inherit the Earth. Young rat warrior, Solo, wanders the cannibal wastes - can he carve out a place among the survivors of chaos? Oscar Martin, award-winning writer/artist of Tom & Jerry, packs his post-apocalypse with brutal action and lavish detail.

The Cathedral of the Chasms 01 The Gospel of Ariathia (2020)

A world separated by a rift, a great chasm created by the Gods to bring an end to endless wars between, two great ancestral empires... Where a dream of bringing them together, by building a huge cathedral is about to be born!

Spirou Hope Against All Odds - Part 1 (Europe Comics 2020)

Script by Émile Bravo - Art by Émile Bravo. It seemed inevitable that Europe would once again be in the dark clutches of war, and now that conflict has broken out, Spirou must face its horrible reality while staying true to himself. He does his best to maintain his friendship with Fantasio, even as the latter enlists in the Belgian army. And when Spirou meets Felix, a German‐Jewish painter, his eyes are opened to the plight of the Jewish people and the dangerous situation in Europe and beyond. On top of all that, Spirou’s girlfriend Kassandra has been lost in the confusion of the war. In the first of four volumes, the orphan bellhop’s adventures will take him all across war-torn Belgium, discovering the world as it falls apart around him.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Conquest

The goal has been achieved: Icelandia, an inhabitable, if inhospitable ice planet, has been reached. On the orders of Admiral Ragnvald Hakarsson, Oberleutnant Kirsten Konig is placed in charge of establishing first contact with the few non-human natives of Icelandia. But since her awakening from cryo-sleep, Konig has suffered incessant headaches, vertigo, and hallucinations that seem connected to the planet.
But as settlement begins, the fragile peace Konig has won is threatened by the mysterious destruction of the second human colony. With no survivors or witnesses to the attack, the situation is about to become a flashpoint, which will burn away everything Konig believed she knew.

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Excalibur Chronicles

Merlin, an old druid visionary but not infallible. Uther Pendragon, a young brute who is learning to become a real king. Ygerne, a woman beaten for her religious beliefs. Gorloix, a sadistic pervert of God and executioner of his wife. And Morgane, an adorable child who sees things no one sees, not even Merlin. A child who suffers to know that one day she will be infallibly bad. Scenario: Istin, Jean-Luc. Drawing: Brion, Alain.


Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Fifth Gospel

Holy Land. XIIth century. Thirteen young Saracen children have disappeared. All the girls, at least 13 years old, orphaned and tattooed with a hand of Fatima on the forearm. The disappearances continue ... At this same time, troubled by incessant quarrels, Lord Milon de Plancy has just been savagely assassinated by four hooded men. This is only the beginning of a series of mysterious murders linked apparently to a codex whose revelations are likely to wreak Rome.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Night of the Living Dead

It's Halloween. Lizbeth leaves her husband and two children to accompany her brother Leland, the favorite son, to visit the grave of their adoptive parents. But no sooner do they arrive at the cemetery than they are attacked by a group of living dead! After a terrifying chase, Lizbeth and Leland find refuge in a squalid hotel that will prove to be the only defense against a horde of zombies hungry for fresh meat. They are safe, for now. But the real danger is right outside the hotel walls and the invasion is widespread. Several cities are already devastated. Created by Jean-Luc Istin & Elia Bonetti.
The survivors discover that the hotel manager is holed up in his room, ready to shoot the first person (or thing) that comes too close. As night begins to fall, they discover another problem. There is no electricity. Lizbeth has no choice. She decides that someone has to turn on the emergency power system. But she will have to pass through an area infested with zombies. Will Lizbeth survive? Will she be reunited with her husband and children?

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Orcs & Goblins

After "Elves" and "Dwarves", discover a new epic fantasy saga in the world of Arran: Orcs & Goblins! Turuk, an orc, wakes up, groggy, wounded, and without any memory... To find himself in the streets of what appears to be an abandoned city. But he is not alone; a mysterious archer is hunting him, and strange creatures, who are afraid of the light, want to devour him.
Who are they? Why does someone want to kill him? What happened in this city? And what is he doing here? Nevertheless, his search for answers must not go on too long, as night is coming, along with death... Written by Jean-Luc Istin. Art by Diogo Saïto.


Monday, May 28, 2018

World War Wolves

Devastated by an extremely contagious virus, a great part of the American population have gradually been transformed into hordes of Werewolves. Survivors, fleeing from the infested cities and countryside, have gathered in protected, walled communities. Moving outside these sanctuaries is like flirting with one's own death... Over time, the Werewolves have organized themselves too, and a new nation has arisen. A nation that is feeding on Man. In this dark era, we follow the parallel destinies of several characters in this new United States. Their aim is to survive, but also to eradicate the epidemic!

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Templar

1130, three Knight Templars discover a door behind which is a priceless treasure. But at the end of their discovery, the Templars die one after the other. Only one of them will survive long enough to give a Bedouin a card and his testimony in writing. 1187, frank ships sail towards the town of Tyr assailed by Saladin. Five characters: Conan, from Brittany, Frederic of the Order of Malta, Jean the poet, Lubin the monk and Orient of Saint-Sulpice the Templar also seek to find the ancient gate. A quest begins and at the end ... Certain death. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Mirko Colak.


Saturday, April 8, 2017

Androids

In 2545, mankind is struck with sterility. No one on earth has begotten children for 500 years. If Microcorp had not invented the "Blue Pill" blend, the Earth would now be uninhabited. Thanks to the "mixture", eternal youth is guaranteed. More diseases, more old age. It is against this backdrop that Liv Anderson, a well-tempered cop, investigates the murder of a museum director, found in his home riddled with bullets. Soon, what looks like a mundane affair seems to lead to something so secret that it pushes its guardians to kill anyone approaching it. At the same time, Anna Hopkins, a restorer of works of art, feels worse and worse. She consults Dr. Castle and the verdict falls. For 500 years humanity has been barren, but. Anna is pregnant. 
Androids. A comic by Sylvain Cordurié, Emmanuel Nhieu, Geyser, Olivier Peru, sci fi, Sebastien Lamirand, Jean-Luc Istin etc.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Alice Matheson

Alice Matheson, a professional and brilliant nurse of St. Mary's Hospital in London, could be a surgeon – she has the capacities, nerves of steel and a high IQ – but she would run the risk of exposure. For Alice is an angel of death; a cold, calculating psychopath who kills her victims chosen from amongst the hospital patients in terminal phase. However, things become complicated when one of her victims gets up despite the lethal dose she has just given them. London now experiences the first hours of a new sort of epidemic; the dead are alive! And even for a serial killer, this is rather disturbing! A comic Jean-Luc Istin and Phil Vandaele.
Alice Matheson is a professional and brilliant nurse. But she is also an angel of Death; a cold, calculating psychopath who kills her victims chosen from amongst the hospital patients. However, things become complicated when one of her victims gets up despite the lethal dose she has just administered.


Monday, November 14, 2016

Hannibal Meriadec and the Tears of Odin

Hannibal Meriadec Captain Mac Lir, pirate and witch, covets 7 diamonds. The legend tells that Odin, the father of the gods, wept 7 tears when he lost his daughter. These seven tears fell to earth and became seven diamonds of unprecedented purity. An ancestor of Hannibal in a manuscript attested to the existence of these precious stones, but the latter are also sought by an old order, the secret Order of the Axis, that will do anything to get their hands on this treasure. A scanlation (a portmanteau of scan and translation) of the Soleil graphic novel by the Dragonz Team. Hannibal Meriadec and the Tears of Odin. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Stéphane Crety.


Saturday, October 15, 2016

Merlin

Merlin is a ten-volume series of graphic novels about the wizard of Arthurian legend originally published in French and Dutch in 2001 by European publishers Talent and Soleil. The series was re-issued in 2010 by European publisher Silvester. Book 1, written by Jean-Luc Istin, drawn by Eric Lambert (both French) and colored by Belgian Bruno Stambecco, sets the stage for the birth of Merlin. As is usually the case for European graphic novels, this is a scanlation (a portmanteau of "scan" and "translation"), done by the Dragonz team of Darthscanner of Minutemen fame, DMT and Choky27. Lush story drawn from Celtic elements with gorgeous artwork.


Saturday, September 3, 2016

Druids

Fifth century. The world changes, a conflict has begun: Christianity is opposed to the old religion. Druids and monks are waging a war in ombre. Tandis that the Britons descend populate the rocky headland of Brittany, Gwenc'hlan the last druid in this region, and Taran, his apprentice, trying to thwart the traps set by their fanatical opponents. The Morrigan's help, a woman from the Other World, will be valuable. Among the remains of ancient neolithic cults, a deaf threat rises. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Jacques Lamontagne.
The spear of Lug stealthily charm that protected Is seems broken. Nothing seems able to prevent this city from being engulfed by the wave approaching. Taran and his Master survived are, but not all will have that chance. After busy stranded body, they hit the road to try to resolve the initial enigma that could heavily condition the future of their order, the Druids.


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Zenith Of Dragons

Acquitted by Nuremberg, a former Nazi archaeologist discovers a passage to Agartha as Wewelsburg. A spin-off of  The order of dragons pursuing pleasantly overused theme of the Nazi occultism. It is a long time, during the Crusades, a deal between Muslim and Christian knights turns massacre. The dispute was a precious chalice made ​​by a mysterious battleship rider the end of April 1945, after an intensive bombardment of Berlin, the Allied victory is gained. Hitler and Goebbels committed suicide in their bunker. Among his last orders, the Führer did flood the subway in the capital in order to block the progression of Russian troops. This flood drowns more than a thousand German refugees there to escape the bomb rain. Among them is Paula, who manages to escape just grab a time scale. She believes hallucinate when between two waters, she sees four creatures walking in a hallway carrying a coffin. The first volume of this series is a spin-off of  The order of dragons, managed by Jean-Luc Istin. Scriptwriter: Eric Corbeyran, Drawing: Denis Rodier. Zenith Of Dragons.
A few hours later, German officers accept the surrender by going to a US headquarters. Among them, the archaeologist and Lieutenant Ernst Schäfer denies having subscribed to Nazi ideology. He explained by saying that he has accepted promotions in the only goal to continue his scientific research. The Nuremberg trial acquit indeed strangely. At the end, he was contacted by Hermann Bartels, an architect who wants to negotiate a similar protection. Bartels delivers in exchange a top-secret information: he was asked to restore the eyrie of Hitler to Wewelsburg. But according to him, under a tower, is still access to something occult and powerful.


Saturday, June 25, 2016

Twilight of the Gods

Alberic, the king of the Nibelungs, forged a ring heavenly gold. A ring in power so great that it is able to bend everything to his volonté. Wotan, Father of the Gods, captured in order to release the goddess Idunn, guardian of immortality apples. But beware of the curse. To appease its effects, Wotan shares the countless mortal women layer. These unions are born Siegmund and his sister, Siegliend, also carrying the black ring fire. The Curse of the Nibelung then leaves the land of the gods to win Mannheim, the land of men. Fate of the Gods and Mortals finds himself hopelessly bound. The first 6 pages of the album. A comic by Jean-Luc Istin and Gwendal Lemercier. Twilight of the Gods.
Then the Nibelungen heavenly melted gold to fashion a cursed ring. A ring whose power was so great that he was able to bend everything to his will. A ring that was to lead the world in RAGNARÖK. "The story of the Nibelungen, told by Jarry and Djief in Götterdämmerung, is one of the myths the authors of fantasy, Tolkien first, never cease to be inspired in their creations.


Thursday, May 26, 2016

Nirvana

2046: A new drug appears on the market. A revolutionary drug. The first quantum drug. The world will change and nothing will be as before. Nirvana is a drug that does not just alter the functions of the mind by controlling the mind of the consumer. No, it is a drug which disperses the human molecules. Drug addicts are falling apart and re-form. It is the total and guaranteed trip. Nirvana is more dangerous than any other drug. The consumer may not recover at the same. Scenario: Jean-Luc Istin. Design: Arnaud Boudoiron.
Hurley Judd is a narco-cop with "license to kill", a cop who plays solo and has only one referent. A guy who works in a submarine in the middle. His mission: to eradicate the arch-dealer Nirvana. But Hurley was not always a cop. A few years ago he was a mere archivist, rather coward, until his wife addicted to the famous drug, disappeared. Since then, he seeks and his mind has changed, it is more confident than ever and the message he received from his wife is not a fake, then this damn story will lead directly to the inventor Nirvana itself.